--- title: Some scary warnings about viral "challenges" turn out to be hoaxes,… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: Some scary warnings about viral "challenges" turn out to be hoaxes, and sharing them can spread the fear; check with a trusted source and tell an adult instead. Who acts: scary warnings, sharing, adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scary warnings, sharing, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:15 # text = Some scary warnings about viral "challenges" turn out to be hoaxes, and sharing them can spread the fear; check with a trusted source and tell an adult instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 challenges challenge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 hoaxes hoax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 16 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 29 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn out** | present | some scary warnings about viral challenges | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | some scary warnings about viral challenges *not said here* | hoaxes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **share** | gerund | | warnings *= warning* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spread** | can | sharing | the fear | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme | | 5 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | with a trusted source | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a adult | | | | | instead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Viral facts and chain messages, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/14/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)